The Best Articles in Privacy

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«Our goal in this article is to help you condense your attack surface as much as possible.»

The "Off-Facebook Activity" tool lets you see — and somewhat control — what other sites and apps tell Facebook about you

Face recognition technology has been controversial for years. Cops in the UK are drastically increasing the amount they use it.

Governments already use fake data to confuse their enemies. What if they start doing this in the nuclear realm?

When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out.

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

When the copyright for George Orwell's work expired, two writers reimagined his towering masterpieces, 1984 and Animal Farm. Dorian Lynskey finds out why.

Learn how Apple and Meta use psychology and UX to collect your data while creating an illusion of privacy.

A guide on anonymizing your phone, so you can use it without it using you

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Bad news: your car is a spy. Every major car brand failed a recent privacy and security test from Mozilla. You’re probably driving around in a "privacy nightmare" that may collect information as…

Have you ever wondered how much of your personal information is available online? Here's your chance to find out.

The long read: Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. But who was writing them, and why?

A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.

Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.

«track the movements of billions of people via their phones with a constant stream of data purchased directly from Twitter.»

To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox." Here's an exclusive peek into how it will work.

Signal recently killed SMS support as part of that mission.